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“In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions: "When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop being comforted by the sweet territory of silence?”
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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have to.”
― Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
― Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
“ To be in love
Is to touch things with a lighter hand.
In yourself you stretch, you are well.”
― Selected Poems
Is to touch things with a lighter hand.
In yourself you stretch, you are well.”
― Selected Poems
“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not seek or conjecture either of them as if they were veiled obscurities or extravagances beyond the horizon of my vision; I see them before me and connect them immediately with the consciousness of my existence.”
― Critique of Practical Reason
― Critique of Practical Reason
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